Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hair comes out like a bird 's nest and my eyes look slitty . |
| 2 | My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls . |
| 3 | ‘ My wife works hard as a working mum , and all credit to her , but do n't kid me she 's a superwoman and I 'm a gibbering idiot . |
| 4 | And again , elsewhere , she writes : ‘ The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me . ’ |
| 5 | And so if one of my colleagues sets out on a reform designed to get better value for money and a more effective health service , I 'm going to support him . |
| 6 | If there are no personal letters , my identity submits meekly to a brief dual eclipse , the first at eight-thirty and the second at noon . |
| 7 | The spiritual ( or is it the psychic ? ) intensity of their presence goes together with a marvellous air of freedom and delicacy . |
| 8 | Education Committee chairman Gideon Ben-Tovim said Labour was proposing their reorganisation plans again at a meeting of the city council . |
| 9 | Any rule chosen from the conflict set has its weight reduced by the factor K. If it is the last rule of a successful search , so its action leads immediately to a goal , then the reward C is added to its weight . |
| 10 | Nosey parkering round the piles of recently acquired books while her hostess goes off for a pee , she announces on Rainbow 's return — ‘ I was right . |
| 11 | Frances Fielding ( as Juliet ) finds her way through the conceits of Shakespeare 's early verse style intelligibly , and though her voice modulates little from a high , anxious note , her portrayal of Juliet 's final loneliness is still affecting . |
| 12 | ‘ Well you know when mothers get fat and their stomach sticks out like a balloon ? |
| 13 | Her minds flits about like a butterfly , settling on one thing , and flying off again at once . ) |
| 14 | Her tameness drops away like a spring moult , and her primitive survival instincts supplant everything else . |
| 15 | ELSIE TANNER , Coronation Street 's tart with a heart , may be dead , but her memory lives on in a Derbyshire pub . |
| 16 | What they really like is talking about it , talking about others doing it , and feeling mighty relieved when their partner arrives home with a headache . |
| 17 | Laboratory rodents that spontaneously develop autoimmune type I diabetes did so at a much lower frequency when fed a synthetic chow free of cows ' milk protein , and recently a peptide antigen called p 69 was identified on rat insulinoma cells which cross reacts immunologically with a similar sequence present in bovine , but not human or rat , albumin . |
| 18 | As a test gene we used a β-globin gene whose promoter consists solely of an octamer sequence and a TATA box . |
| 19 | From Rorschach a direct road to the south-west brings the traveller quickly to St Gallen , the largest city in north-east Switzerland , the capital of the canton which bears its name , and a place whose prestige rests securely on a joint foundation of industry , its role in Switzerland 's cultural life , scholarship , expanding tourism , its success in preserving an inherited past , and its development as a congress centre . |
| 20 | Making little detours off the motorway , you will quickly discover such fascinating towns as Altomonto with its unusual 14th century gothic church with big rose window , and Montalto Uffugo whose castle perches precariously on a steep hillside above a graceful , romanesque cathedral . |
| 21 | His action reads more like a page from Austerlitz or Borodino than from the grey annals of the First World War . |
| 22 | And you will become aware of technical skills — noticing economy of effect and style , seeing and hearing how an actor interprets a script , and how his thinking comes across in a performance . |
| 23 | If the stress is high enough and he is basically insecure — his adult has not turned off his child 's ‘ all my fault ’ — his child takes over with a ‘ nothing to do with you ’ response . |
| 24 | What is known of his life comes mainly from a memorial sermon preached by his friend and successor as bishop , George Rust , and from his own books . |
| 25 | ( And his relief comes out in a laugh . |
| 26 | The miracle is that His will prevails generally across a million worlds . |
| 27 | His book comes out at a time when anyone who shares his concerns may be feeling particularly down-hearted . |
| 28 | Though Mustakimzade asserts that Fahreddin Acemi studied under al-Taftazani , this seems unlikely as the latter died in 792/1389–90 , and one suspects that his statement derives either from a misreading of the genealogy or from a faulty genealogy . |
| 29 | It 's hard to imagine anybody writing more artificially , but I hope you feel , as I do , there can hardly be a piece of poetry in which the distress of the poet and the feeling that he may be wasting his time comes through in a more anguished fashion . |
| 30 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |